epic sounds

I've managed to recover some old Chinese songs from tape. I'm not sure if they sound epic to anybody else, but the last time I heard these was in a car to Phillip Island many years ago so maybe there's some weird association there. The tape had been missing, presumed melted. Anyway, if anybody is interested, here's one to get started and the rest are here (except track 1 which was quite tacky). There's IDv3 tag info, transcribed from the cassette case insert into the tablet (didn't have to muck around with pinyin or anything) but I didn't bother renaming the actual filename.

Today I got 20 short text messages from Connex about train disruptions. Quite fail.
I liked this statement though on the Metlink website: Commuters are advised that due to an excess of faulty trains, buses are
currently replacing train services on the Alamein line between Alamein
and Camberwell.
I would have thought it'd be a shortage of operational trains. Meh.

Finally, here's something I took a photo of a few weeks back while with dad looking at rainwater tanks. It doesn't appear to come with any ceiling mounting gear.

discovery

I didn't realise until a month in that my scroller on the pdaphone could be pressed in... Same thing happened with the pda before - didn't realise the scroll wheel could be clicked in until much later. Although on the newer device the press is a lot more springy. Normally it's hidden software functions that don't get discovered until later on... not hardware buttons bah~

There's also a bit of funkiness going on with Tudor A4 exercise books at Officeworks:-

• 48 page $0.48
• 64 page $0.99 (what the?)
  
• 96 page $0.98 (but it scanned in higher than this catalogue price - dodge... one of my sisters got folders that scanned in much higher than shelf price)

I prefer the 48 page books because it doesn't seem like I get much work done anymore, plus they're lighter/less bulky.
Ah well. I should probably do a bit more this time around.

special-ness

What makes special fried rice special?
Is it special in the way that 'every person is special'?
But would mean every fried rice is special and leave us without any normal fried rice.
Or could it be something like that my peas weren't properly defrosted... then it warrants the designation of special fried rice.
The peas were cool - really~

Three years on...

Three years might seem like a long time to
some, but for others it goes pretty quickly. It might feel like not much has
been achieved or that it was spent stalling the progress of the rest of life.
Whichever your view, it is a long time for a computer to be running and it was
pretty fugly inside this particular unit.* Not that it was slow or anything... 1.6GHz Sempron on a Geforce 6100 board still gets a lot done.  

I stopped getting people cheapo SHAW cases a
while back. They're not too bad - power supplies haven't blown up or anything (using 50W from 600 bazillion is fairly safe).
Bits could fit better or at all. (Some screwholes are absent as well as the
ability to open one side of the case) But after a while it just doesn't seem
worth it to save those last few dollars.

A really random and big grate on the side panel
seems might make a good first impression for ventilation... until nearly three years'
worth of carpet fluff/dust finds its way in. 15-30 minutes with a paintbrush
resulted in a very dusty table outside (I find the idea of buying a can of air
nearly as bad as buying bottled water. Not my table so it's ok).  Plus the wind wasn’t blowing that day. Sometimes the brush side wasn't stiff enough to pierce what looked almost like felt under the cpu fan.

But yeah... that sight was quite disturbing. Eww. Maybe kicking one's computer in this instance would actually be good in dislodging dust. Hmmmmm